After weeks of speculation and rumors, Google has officially pulled back the curtain on what they have come to call Project Glass -- a pair of augmented reality glasses that seek to provide users real-time information right in front of their eyes.

This self-folding robot goes from flat to fast (sort of) in just four minutes. Using flat materials and origami-inspired patterns, researchers have designed a real-life transformer that can assemble itself, then walk and even turn around on its own. The work was published in Science this week.

A focus on urban driving brings Google's self-driving cars even closer to full autonomy

Tony Sacksteder's insight:

Google's cars are still not ready for end users like you and I; they may be able to deal with 90 or 95 percent of situations autonomously, but that last 5 to 10 percent to make it to 100 percent autonomy (which is what's required) is probably as hard as all of the research, programming, experience, and machine learning that's gone into the cars up to this point.

DVICE As robots get smarter, they'll be pouring our coffee (and beer) GigaOM Scientists are hard at work creating robots that are able to sense and predict human actions, which should make them better performing tasks and look more natural while...

Tony Sacksteder's insight:

Funny - the confusion - or rather misinformation about "sensing" and "smartness"

North American robotic orders record second-highest quarter ever in Q1 2014 MMH.com The robotics market in North America posted its second-highest quarter ever in terms of robots ordered in first quarter 2014, according to new statistics from...

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The loneliness of the long-distance robot: A robot named Ranger walked 14.3 miles in about 11 hours, setting an unofficial world record. A human -- armed with nothing more than a standard remote control for toys -- steered the untethered robot.

Freaky Light-Controlled Gels Could Be the Real Future of Robotics Gizmodo There's a branch of robotics research that doesn't necessarily believe that future automatons have to be filled with pistons, gears, and motors.

Tomorrow's Recruitment: Big-Data Robots Bring Better Hires Forbes So what should you know before you hand recruitment over to the robots? Even in this economic climate, employee quit rates in the private sector run at an average of 1.8% per month.

Tony Sacksteder's insight:

A reminder that in the world of BIG DATA, a robot may be a body-less piece of code running on a server farm half a planet away.

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